Increased acetylcholine release in the rat medial prefrontal cortex during performance of a visual attentional task

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 3051-3058

  Passetti, F ^a   Dalley, J W ^a   O'connell, M T ^b   Everitt, B J ^a,b   Robbins, T W ^a,b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACh; Attention; Microdialysis; Nucleus basalis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE BRAIN LEVEL; ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEOSTIGMINE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0033817946     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00183.x     Document Type: Article

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